If I’m Conscious in Deep Sleep, Why Can’t I Remember It?

In this discussion about sleep and consciousness a man asks why, if we are conscious in deep sleep, we can’t remember it. The conversation also explores the relationship among pure being or deep sleep, the dream state and the waking state.

Rupert says: ‘Deep sleep is pure awareness of being. When thoughts and images are added, we call it the dream state. When sensations and perceptions are added, we call it the waking state. We have a deep belief, from the point of view of the waking state, that deep sleep is the absence of awareness. Therefore, we think we do not have the experience of being in deep sleep. But that’s just what the waking state tells us – it’s not our experience.

‘The reason we don’t remember deep sleep is because we can only remember something that is objective and there’s nothing objective to remember in deep sleep. The mind then superimposes the absence of objects onto deep sleep and says it’s a blank, empty void. But in the absence of experience, there’s just the awareness of being. That’s the experience that shines as deep sleep.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at The Vedanta, 11–18 November 2023. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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Timestamps:

0:00 Awareness of Being
0:49 Deep Sleep Is Pure Awareness
1:43 Being Is Always Awake
2:25 Different States of Consciousness
3:39 Deep Sleep Is Closest to Reality
4:55 Deep Sleep Is Not a State
7:20 Awareness Is Always Aware of Itself
8:17 Why Can’t We Remember Deep Sleep?
10:42 The Mind Only Knows Objective Experience
11:55 The Mind’s Blind Spot

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